Archive for November, 2009

November 30, 2009 0

Come on Discovery!

By Nick in uncategorized

From the channel that brought us Mythbusters and the Planet Earth DVD’s we get a new offering. . . Ghost Lab. This won’t be a long blog, just imagine a long sigh peppered with disappointment. I like the jovial childlike aspect of these ghost hunters, but I have a problem when they push there wares [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , ,

November 28, 2009 0

A Steve Wozniak Talk

By Nick in uncategorized
  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

November 25, 2009 0

My Wife Finds Cool Things

By Nick in uncategorized

Leslie has been listening to Ingrid Michaelson lately, and I by default have had the chance to hear some of her music. She is pretty swell, and I like it when I can find female vocalists that I like, because I seem to be sexist when it comes to music. Anyway, here are some lyrics [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , , ,

November 21, 2009 2

Context

By Nick in inspiration, religious

When I was studying English and poetry my teachers were a little miffed when they asked me to tell them what a poem meant. I usually responded by saying “I don’t know.” Then they would ask me if I read it, and I would tell them that I had. Then the question turned to whether [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , ,

November 18, 2009 3

Immortality

By Nick in uncategorized

I remember sitting in a poetry class in college and the teacher finished up a poem by Wilfred Owen or Pablo Neruda or Yusef Komunyakaa, and having the professor finish the last line of the poem with a pause, then he repeated the line of the poem. It was an amazing last line. Then he [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: